Holiday Inn Resort Phuket Karon Beach By IHG

Every room at Holiday Inn Resort Phuket Karon Beach By IHG has a garden view. The rooms run from standard rooms of 28 m² to a 33 m² premium room, one-bedroom villas of 52 m² and 60 m², and a 52 m² one-bedroom suite. The villas include a bathtub, and one of them also has a plunge pool.

Rooms can have air conditioning, a mini bar, an in-room safe, an electric kettle and a balcony or terrace, and guests can also use the outdoor swimming pool and the spa. The villas and the suite sleep up to five guests, and the standard rooms sleep up to three.

The hotel has an outdoor swimming pool, a spa and sauna, and a fitness centre. The spa offers massage, body scrub, body wrap and foot bath treatments. Restaurants serve Asian and Western cuisine, with a coffee shop, a poolside bar and 24-hour room service. Food delivery and grocery delivery are also offered.

Guests can play billiards and table tennis or use the game room, and the hotel also has a kids club, a yoga room and a garden. For getting around, tours can be arranged, there is car hire, a taxi service and an airport transfer, and there is also currency exchange, luggage storage and daily housekeeping, along with laundry and ironing services.

Karon is a long sandy beach on the Andaman side of Phuket, with shops, massage places and street-food stalls along the road behind it. The evenings are livelier, when the night market and the food stalls open, and Patong, the island's best-known resort town, is a short drive away.

Karon View Point, 250 m from the hotel, looks out over Karon Beach and the bay. The Karon Night Market is 850 m away, and Big Buddha Phuket, a large white statue on a hill, is 3.7 km away. Chaithararam Temple (Wat Chalong), one of the island's most revered temples, is 4.9 km away, and Freedom Beach, a quieter stretch of sand, is 2.9 km away.

A good day combines a morning on Karon Beach with an afternoon at Big Buddha or Wat Chalong, and a car or taxi makes the trips between them simple. Kata Beach, the neighbouring stretch of sand, can also be reached by road, and the Karon Night Market is an easy way to end the evening. Karon Beach is the closest beach to the hotel, and the sand is a short walk from the entrance, so an hour on the beach can start the day before the rest of the island is explored.